Halloween Party Decorations?!
Answers: I have checked all the websites and consulted all of my magazines. We are having a halloween party geared for adults, and most of what I have found is for kiddo halloween parties. We have a fog machine, black lights, blacked out walls and such as that, but I need some ideas for really great looking props and such that won't cost a fortune. While it's my sister's party, most of the decorating will be left up to my husband and brother b/c of her emergency surgery and my having to work most of the day, and they only have about six hours in which to transform this place. So any ideas would be great. I would prefer personal ideas and not websites.
First- for any type of Halloween party, you HAVE to have the spider web. :-) it wouldn't be fun without it. Personal experience- my husband & I are doing a Halloween party & so far we dyed old sheets in black & cover all the walls with them. We have the fog machine, & black lights + the blinking light for effect. We covered the TV stand with a black curtain. We stand up 3 tombstones & a goblin hanged from the ceiling- something that's affordable & can be done in minutes. we put leaves around the tombstones & candles on front- so when you lit them you can see the skeleton carved on the tombstone. We bought cheap decorations such as fake leaves, spiders, bats, caution tape, fake blood, etc. you can also make prints with the fake blood on the walls- that's what I did & when you turn on the black light you can see the prints. Pick leaves from outside & do simple arrangements with them- I grabed two branches of leaves And I already had a skeleton decoration on the wall, and I cut the leaves off the branches- they were nice and colorful & glued around the border of the decoration. Looks real nice. We bought candles so we wont have to use that much light in the house the day of the party. You can buy big pumpkins & carve them & put candles inside of them, also make some popcorn hands with a glove and you can use candy corn as the nails.Other than that if you have the main things, "the black lights, black-out walls, spider web & music- the drinks, I don't think anyone will care about the rest- as long as you guys have fun. Good luck- I hope this helped.
make cardboard tombstones. also cover large ball with sheet to make ghosts.
You can go to Wal-mart and get this stuff thats like a huge cotten ball. and what you do is stretch it out and make spider webs, its good for all ages.
Use bales of hay for everyone at the party to sit on. Spread them around the yard. Stretch spider webs from wal-mart out over pourch and around front of house. Buy Pumpkins, squash, ears of indian corn and stalks of corn...most found at wal-mart. Set them up around the party area. Get big caldron pots from wal-mart and fill them half full with water, and drop a few pieces of dry ice in them for a fog effect. Put some dry ice in the punch. Buy bleeding candels and place them around the house (inside or out). Hang bats and spiders from the ceiling or in the garage or on the pourch. That's all I got...good luck and have fun!
http://www.lillianvernon.com They have a lot of Halloween stuff/